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November. It frequents bamboos, and wlien distm-bed flies into tbe thick foliage, 

 where it settles on a bamboo-stem with closed wings, and is difficult to see. Like several 

 of its congeners, it prefers shady to sunny places." Specimens from Shillong, Assam, 

 are in Mr. P. Crowley's collection. Capt. E. Y. Watson, in his " Notes on Chin- 

 Lushai butterflies " (Journ. Bombay ISTat. Hist. Sec. 1891, 10), records it " from Tilin, 

 in the Chin Hills, taken in May." Major 0. H. E. Adamson (Catal. Butterflies col- 

 lected in Burma, p. 8) states that it is " sparsely spread throughout Burma from 

 June to August." Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 824) obtained it at Ahsown, 

 2000 feet, and at Taoo, 3000 to 5000 feet, in Upper Tenasserim." " Capt. C. T. 

 Bingham took it in the Donat range, Tenasserim, in February and April" (Butt, of 

 India, i. 148). There is a specimen of the male from Mergui, collected by Commander 

 Carpenter, E.N., in the British Museum collection. 



Distribution outside Indian area. — In the Malay Peninsula Mr. Distant (Rhop. 

 Malay. 414) records it from Perak, and Malacca, where Capt. Godfrey observed it 

 frequenting dark shady places, passing the day at the foot of a tuft of bamboo, or 

 on low shrubs under shady trees, and when disturbed it goes off with a rapid flight, 

 soon settling again, however, unless it has been several times alarmed." A specimen 

 from Salanga Island is in the British Museum. A male in our own collection, from 

 Sumatra, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace, is undoubtedly Mekara. An example from 

 Sarawak, Borneo, is also in the British Museum collection. This species will also 

 probably include the Javan D. Manthara \^e\diev, Reise Novara, iii. p. 497). 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 79, figs. 1, la, b, represents the 

 male and female of the wet-season brood; and fig. 1, c, the underside of the male 

 of the dry-season brood ; all from Sikkim. 



DEBIS SATYAVATI (Plate 80, fig. 2, 2a, ?). 

 Lethe Safyavati, de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 246, ? . Marshall and de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, i. p. 554 (1883), ? . 



Imago. — " Female. Upperside dull brown, paler towards the margins. Fore- 

 wing with an indistinct submai-ginal darker line. Hindwing with a submarginal 

 series of four rounded spots darker than the ground-colour, placed one in each 

 interspace above the first median nervule ; two maginal darker lines defined inwardly 

 by paler lines than the ground-colour. Underside pale brown, with no ochreous tint, 

 and washed with lilac, especially on the outer half. Both wings crossed by a 

 prominent brown nearly straight subbasal line outwardly margined with lilac. Fore- 

 wing with an irregular discal transverse brown line ; a bar in the cell within the sub- 

 basal line ; five indistinct submarginal ocelli circled with lilac and brown on a Iflac 

 groimd ; and a yellowish marginal line edged on both sides with dusky, within 

 which is a brown waved band on the lilac s^round between the ocelli and the margin. 



